Around 10 people attended our first ever meeting of the LUG
at the Crawford Hotel function room in November. We had various demonstrations
of all things Linux.

We brought along a few demonstration machines for people to mess
with. The main one running Redhat 7.2 with SuSE 7.3 running in a
VMWare Virtual Machine. We also brought a laptop running Mandrake 8.1.

There was a demonstration of firewalling on Redhat, VMWare and
mail clients in Linux (including Ximian's Evolution).

In the picture on the left, David Johnson is preparing our main
demonstration machine before the group arrived.

This was the biggest attraction of the meeting. We had piles of
freebies including our SuSE 7.1 mountain of SuSE 7.1 Professional (of which we
brought 20).

There was also various other distributions and loads of
information including Linux Certification from SAIR and O'Reilly book catalogues
(which we can offer a discount on).

There was also a presentation from Rick Timmis of SuperTramp who
told us about his companies ongoing Windows to Linux migration with the help of
Ylem.

He explained the pros and cons of Linux for SuperTramp and
needless to say the pros rather outweighed the cons. Especially interesting was
the costs of switching the whole company to Linux compared to keeping Windows...

This is how much of the meeting was spent - chatting (or rather
debating in some cases). The topic of conversation varied and included Linux,
Windows, minimal Microsoft bashing (of course), the pronunciation of Linux (I
knew that was going to happen) through to the composition of the universe
(no-one knows how that started...).

All in all I think everyone learnt at least something and it was
certainly a worthwhile meeting which has paved the way for future
meetings.

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